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By JT Pennington

340: Check My Sums

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Published March 05, 2020 7:00am

Why ZFS is doing filesystem checksumming right, better TMPFS throughput performance on DragonFlyBSD, reshaping pools with ZFS, PKGSRC on Manjaro aarch64 Pinebook-pro, central log host with syslog-ng on FreeBSD, and more.HeadlinesChecksumming in filesystems, and why ZFS is doing it right

One of the best aspects of ZFS is its reliability. This can be accomplished using a few features like copy-on-write approach and checksumming. Today we will look at how ZFS does checksumming and why it does it the proper way. Most of the file systems donโ€™t provide any integrity checking an...

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